The dumification of humanity through internet

 I deal with pcb's on a daily basis and the aforementioned hand place pad size thing happens a lot.. Along
with reversed silk screen polarity for diodes, leds, and caps. And that's before performance testing.

Unknown If your looking for a pick and place you may want to check out the LumenPnP,
www.opulo.io/
though I  don't have direct experience with them, they may be worth checking out.

  If you are looking to do a retrofit be ready to write a lot of extra code to control the machine. For
example feeders and auto alignment camera's.

I think I might just look for a toaster oven and mod that (or use it as is), the local op shop (thrift store,goodwill) has some pretty good prices.....picked up a monitor arm, complete and still in the box, for AUD $6.50.

LFQP & TSSOP all with .5mm pitch are no issue, just those damn 0603 parts with non hand solder pads, in my defense (a very poor one) I didn't design this board & we're dog sitting another Beagle.

The bit that gets me is that I soldered the FPGA, ethernet interface chip and bus drivers on first, see what you get for following instructions.

I think it was just a case on general (temporary?) stupidity on my part.

And to add insult to injury I bashed my little toe and just about broke it, I couldn't find my steel capped thongs.

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And to add insult to injury I bashed my little toe and just about broke it, I couldn't find my steel capped thongs.

I think my toe did break and is almost healed now, Slipped in bathroom, skewered thru the door, left toe behind, and nearly busted the wall sheeting on the other side of the halway.......

Could've been an expensive trip if you went through the gyprock, was it one of those times you could see what was going happen next, lol.